A 2009 novel translated by Margaret Sayers Peden describes four decades of Tété’s life and her relationship with Valmorain in one of these places. The title character of one novel, who grows up with Mama Yaya, returns to one of these places out of love for John Indian. That character, who was born in one of these places, later ends up in a jail cell with Hester Prynne. One character returning from convent school discovers her lover has been banished from one of these places for his (*) revolutionary socialist ideas. The death of his fiance Rosa sparks the poor miner Esteban to restore one of these places to a “model” example, for which he assigns Pedro Segundo as foreman. For 10 points, Las Tres Marias is what type of place that is the primary source of income for the Trueba family in The House of the Spirits? ■END■
ANSWER: plantations [accept haciendas or estates; prompt on houses; prompt on farms or similar answers; prompt on islands with “what specific places on those islands?”] (The unnamed novels are Maryse Conde’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem and Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea.)
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